bird

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[–] bird@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, should have clarified: they thought the tip jar was a glass for their beer. When I'd already asked them if they wanted a glass.

[–] bird@aussie.zone 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

So, so many; I have spent far too long in hospitality.

A relatively benign one: At a small coffeeshop. Found a quirky little hat behind the counter - a tweed fedora thing with a rakish orange feather in it. Full of youthful high spirits and caffeine, I proceeded to lark around the shop in the hat (yes I wish I still had that much energy), much to the amusement of my coworkers. A lady walks in, interrupting us. She'd left her hat.

At a bar: A nonzero amount of customers buying a bottle of beer and then pouring it into the tip jar (edited to add: thinking it a glass for their beer). Some version of "how was I supposed to know?!", repeatedly. I don't know, maybe the fact it was covered in chalk pen, contained money, and was very, very ugly?

At a pub: boomer getting very angry at me because he'd asked for a spiced rum and coke and I'd offered Sailor Jerry's (cheapest). Apparently that was a wussy drink. No, he clarified, a girly drink. He chose some other rum with coke. Yeah drink your sugar water old man.

[–] bird@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it in reaction to everything getting scary? It's such a seductive alternative to accepting that we're fucked - just put your faith in someone who says it's all untrue. A cartoon parent figure to comfort you as the word burns.

I can't put into words what I think about people who even doubt climate change, let alone deny its existence. I just... if the data isn't enough, I honestly don't know what to say.

[–] bird@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago

Is that Aphex Twin

[–] bird@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I thought that's what you were insinuating with the /s

[–] bird@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, they'll be in wild animals and nonhuman fetuses too FFS

[–] bird@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

AirBnB is suffocating Hobart. It's not a big city in the first place; there were never tonnes of rentals round here anyway!

Going to have to ride our current place into the ground, and hope they're not too cruel with the rent hikes each year.

[–] bird@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

I'm Android and switching between default, Connect, and Liftoff. I'm enjoying both despite little niggles.

I also found out that Boost for Lemmy is coming! You can search it on the play store. I'm excited because it was my app of choice for the old place.